| HappySqurriel said: Not to be rude but a large portion of this article seems like a more professionally written fanboy thread that we would see posted on the Sony forum ... Its not necessarily that her points are so awful (although a couple are) the problem is that her reasoning is awful. Consider her argument that the PS3 is going to be the next Saturn/Dreamcast ... First off, I owned a Dreamcast and the "Myth" of the Dreamcast is far different from the reality. What made the Dreamcast seem special was that developers took advantage of it early, had a decent vision about what the "Next Generation" meant, and there was a steady stream of good (not necessarily great) games that demonstrated this vision. When compared to the awful line-up of games for the first 9 (or so) months for the PS2 this looked fantastic, and the announcment of the Dreamcast being discontinued made this "good" line-up into the myth of the amazing game line-up. Now, the real reason why I think the comment seems so "fanboyish" is that the PS3 and XBox 360 share 90% of their games, and of the remaining 10% of games 90% of their exclusives have an equlivalent game on the other system ... I don't think one system gets elevated to greatness while another system can be ignored based on a library which is (realistically) 1% different.
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I owned a Dreamcast too. And games like Shenmue and Shenmue II and Skies of Arcadia rank among the best ever made in their respective genres. The 360 still hasn't seen an action adventure game or jrpg as good as those two games. Also, the Dreamcast had by far the best version of Rayman 2: The Great Escape and that is a game that rivals every Mario game ever made in terms of quality.
For the last two years the PS3 has had far better exclusives of any of the three systems starting with Uncharted, Heavenly Sword, Ratchet and Clank Future, and Folkore in 2007 continuing with Valkyrie Chronicles, Little Big Planet, and Metal Gear Solid 4 in 2008, and now it is once again going to have the best exclusives in 2009 with Killzone, Infamous, Uncharted 2, Final Fantasy XIII in Japan at the end of the year. And the possibility that Team ICO's next game and Gran Turismo 5 also coming at the end of the year. And God of War III, FF Versus XIII, and Hideo Kojima's Next Project lined up for next year.
Then toss in the fact that the PS3 and 360 are going to continue to get pretty much the same games in the West for the rest of the gen, but with an advantage of console sales that will be 5 million in favor of the PS3 in Japan to, if it gets extremely lucky, 1,250,000 sales for the 360 in Japan at the end of this year, you will see pretty much any studio that wants to develop an hd game in Japan switching almost all of their development exclusively to PS3. That 1% difference that you mention will be much bigger than that at the end of the gen.
Heavens to Murgatoids.
